You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe. - Leymah Gbowee

The woodworking community on Nostr is special, it’s a microcosm of Nostr that is organically forming and growing. nostr:npub1sd3wwlvl6f58yzs4ss90x07e4dwd7yl6h3n0pygpz9vqjcxd99aq90vwne here has over 30 years of experience in carpentry, and while he makes it seem simple, many of his tips and tricks prevent me from making rookie mistakes. I picked up woodworking as a necessity and eventually a hobby. It’s a great stress-relieving avenue and a dopamine boost. If this is up your alley, give Jeremiah a follow and a zap, and feel free to ask him your design questions and demo suggestions!

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What goes into a builder’s mind :

(Builder : devs, innovators, entrepreneurs, creators, designer etc)

1. Having an idea is easy, but turning it into a sustainable product is crazy

2. I need to learn a lot just to build. A lot of time and resources are needed.

3. Who am I building this for?

4. Do they know it’s for them ? How do i tell them?

5. What’s their reaction to it ?

6. Am I focusing on a small group or something general ? What’s the pros and cons of niche vs wide market?

7. Can i build what I want and hope people will adopt ?

8. If I build 100 things, maybe one might suddenly go viral ?

9. I am not a sales person.

10. I’ll just keep building something awesome so that people will someday like something and keep wanting to use it

11. Do I really have to meet people and ask them what they want and if they liked my product ?

12. I spend hours, days, weeks, months, years building this and all I get are lousy reviews.

13. These feedback are challenging - are they attacking me as a person or my product ? Can I separate these attacks when I’m so emotionally invested in my product ?

14. Am I reaching the right target market or does my product need tweaks ? Am I wise and humble enough to know the difference ?

15. Do I have money to continue ?

16. If I have X amount of money, how can I spend it to take me from goal A to goal B?

17. Wtf is marketing ?

18. Why is everyone scaring the bejesus out of me with finance maths when engineering maths is the lunatic one ? Is it too complex learning finance ?

19. Building a product and getting it to market is 2 separate things - I have no clue abt the latter.

20. I am tired. I am burned out. I am stressed.

21. Will my crazy government come after me ?

22. I can't breathe. I need to breathe

23. I’m running out of money. How do I keep going ?

24. I can starve but I need money to feed my family

25. How can the financial ecosystem advance further to ease me into building and getting my product out there ?

26. Do I have to figure everything out ? Can I just focus on the build ? That alone is hard enough.

27. Why do other people have it easy ? Why can’t life be kind to me ?

28. If I have investors am I beholden to them ? What if I have psycho investors ?

29. Why do I have to convince people to fund me ? Don’t they know how important my work is ?

30. Why didn’t I just get a normal job and be like everyone else ? Why did I choose to make a difference in this world ? Why did I chose this path? It’s too difficult

31. I’m broke, I’m stressed, I’m exhausted, my users are upset, I’m losing users, losing credibility, the problems keep increasing, will this ever work ?

32. I don't know what I am doing anymore.

33. Ok, let me try solution 875 and see if this solves some of my problems. Maybe this time it might get better.

What goes into a user’s perspective :

1. Is this of value to me ?

2. Am I growing with it from a social, intelligence, awareness aspect ?

3. Am I connecting with people of shared values, sentiments, interest ?

4. Is this fun ?

5. Is this worth my time and money?

6. What do I get out of this ?

When the builders and user’s perspectives meet, we would have a higher chance of making things work.

But it’s not easy.

wow, interesting. what printer type and model are you using ?

what happened to Jack's thumb ?

awww this is so pretty

take your time! I think there are many great questions from others as well. I saw your recent video on a few questions on the joints, legs, brands and best ones to buy - incredibly valuable. These are not tips you normally get from one source but it is here and it's a testament of your knowledge and experience. I also really liked your barn door video, I like the combination of your process, images, demo and final product. That water based sandpaper is also interesting - normally its a thousand grit or more for wet sanding. It gives a smoother finish after a clear coat after stain or on plastic that's painted to remove grit marks. checking out your cheap tool video next - i noticed many experienced people go with dewalt. Will you be doing a demo product build soon ?

I've seen some videos on the smaller cordless circular saws. Its a definite maybe

Country leaders tend to get it right when they are not leading the country. They always say and do the right things as oppositions, and rarely make sense as gov'ts

Was reading abt Mossad recently - didn’t realise how powerful they are, and then I realised US has 18 intelligent agencies.

They can track you down by your phone, laptop, car or any wearable with wifi access, cloud access - and if they can’t reach you, they will track your relatives, friends and find any communications to you. They can hack into your house security cameras with warrant, remote access your laptop, any public security cameras at any point etc. and if your data is tied to companies, they can get court order and force the company to surrender it. Social media with photographs has been around for 20+ years - the amount of people profiling.

I sometimes wonder if military created internet to connect everyone for the purpose of tracking them.

Gov'ts will say they track you to prevent domestic and international threat. But terrorism didn’t get worse after 9/11. It only became more obvious to the public. And many formations of global fear is from the agencies based on who backs them.

Maybe we are reaching a point where public believe they can only be safe if they let the govt track them 24/7.

I would not be surprised if Satoshi, like you, was from an intelligence agency, a hacker, and genuinely wanted what’s best for the people.

I asked you once if we can ever escape this and you said no. I think abt that a lot.

If you know what you know now and how your life would turn out, would you have still exposed NSA’s dirty little secret ?

Thank you, appreciate the tips. Checking for types of wood and suitability for stain/paint is an important part of the process . Groove, dado or a rabbet would be challenging with a jig saw hence contemplating a good ol’ fashion direct drill and pocket holes, or maybe holes and dowels or a 3 in 1 housing bold and nut . Tho drawers are a pain! Jigs tend to make hinges error free, and maybe a couple of dowel to make the bottle holders for the doors. Thanks!

I'd love that. I think my Christmas wishlist is going to be a long list of tools after this video is out!

I am contemplating getting it replaced altogether, maybe keep the doors and turn it into a cabinet (someday). i spoke to another carpenter locally and he had your exact feedback. It might be cheaper to have them changed compared to the damage and repair post-damage of an amateur enthusiast =)

Gotta take it easy on the addiction cowboy but good to understand how it works.

Dopamaine hit is pretty powerful. The feeling of success makes a diff. Wordle is a simple game that got millions of people in - easy to solve, gives quick dopamine hit, keeps people coming back for more. In Walter Isaacson’s book, when Steve Jobs started the apps, gamers were the initial user magnet.

Seratonin is powerful too - that’s why people love giving, love learning. And why informative content creation is a hit. Pair this with zaps, wham. And just the right amount keeps away mania.

Oxytocin is wonderful, people who go to Nostr conferences have a different form of connection and gentleness with each other.

Using all this to create a satisfied user is wonderful. Using this to create monsters and zombies are not good.

People also would love platform they can advance themselves. Use cases enables this. 100 diff innovation has 100 diff niche users to start with.

For example, say an indie music platform developer creates his program on Nostr - he/she can’t just assume people will miraculously start using it. He/she needs to go out there and knock on doors and reach out to as many artist.

Am I fabricating this shit ? This actually happened during Punk / Hacker era in 70s and 80s post beatnik. That’s how mix tape started - and more and more independent musicians broke away from labels. Imagine if they had zaps.

But devs cannot keep building stuff and then stay on this platform and whine that no users show up lah. My eyes, ears can bleed from the whining. Obviously users are not gonna show up. Have to go hunt for them.

And no, you don't need some fancy marketing. Just figure out who your target market is and reach out them.

It’s the same for bitcoin as well. Bitcoin has all the potential to be global currency but can only be it, if users use it.

And the same for all innovation. All entrepreneurs have this problem. I do too. No users, no business

And out of everyone they hunt, 90% will fade away but the 10% early adopters will remain and are precious. Keep hunting, keep fine tuning target market, keep growing. Eventually Nostr will explode.

I didn’t stop coming frequently to Nostr because men attack women (women attack men and other women just as nasty here). But I stop coming here frequently because of how privileged and spoilt devs are here. Maybe someday when I’m at a better state myself and won’t feel so bad anymore, I’ll come back more frequently.

I know there are a lot of funds by nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m because he genuinely believes in this. Quite honestly having Jack as safety net only means devs, innovators and entrepreneurs can try like mad to make Nostr work. But surprising its quite the opposite here and I don't understand why. I hope Nostr doesn’t become a government agency-like establishment where everyone gets too comfortable and can get money until they retire.

Open source innovation is different. I think so far only Will has come close to understanding the ecosystem - and that’s because he has guts to put himself out there, try and fail and try again. But if devs don’t try to hunt for users, not wanting to learn beyond what they know, too damn egoistic, and think everyone should worship the ground they walk on, then no matter what drug you wanna infuse users into snorting, it just won’t work.

What's on your reading list for this month ?

I've got the following :

1. Fat Leonard : How one man bribed, bilked and seduced the US Navy by Craig Whitlock

2. This country is no longer yours by Avin Jain Chatlani (on communism in Peru)

3. Gideon’s Spies : The secret history of the Mossad by Gordon Thomas

4. MeXicana Fashion : Politics, self adornment and identity construction by Aida Hurtado and Norma Cantu

Keep going

Good morning! Loving Kat's breakfast menu. Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

lol, some are really funny though. I always thought nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m and nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 make real good dad jokes (and although they are not dads yet, I'm sure they will be great dads)

nice! love the flute panels against the dark wall. what's the right way of installing a pegboard btw?

No worries, take your time, and thank you. I’m trying to squeeze these for the weekends too.

I’ve been watching Jeff’s videos (link below) for kitchen cabinets and he gives no brainer tips that have been helpful. I’ll be painting the walls first, followed by the cabinets. After that I’ll build a simple solid wood shelf, another plywood shelf with rattan webbing on the doors and a pegboard inside to hold pots and utensils. Thus far I’m able to keep it all under $250!

But I might need one of those skill saws that’s less scarier than a table saw. And I’ll likely have to skip the spray paint tool to stay within budget 😭

https://youtu.be/6R9HKvGxbR0